The couple had been on the lam for 16 months. They vanished after a bankruptcy judge ordered them to turn over two giant diamond rings valued at $1.4 million.

Mastro was wanted for contempt of court, and he could also face criminal charges after his highly leveraged real-estate empire evaporated in 2009 after the market crash.

The most recent estimate of his debt to unsecured creditors is $250 million, and court-appointed trustee James Rigby has said those creditors will be lucky to get back more than a few pennies on the dollar.